Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition

Author(s)

• Menon, Ritu
• Bhasin, Kamla

Bibliographic Information

Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition

Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin

Kali for Women, 1998

Note

Summary: On the sufferings of women during the partition of India in 1947; includes personal narratives

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In 1947, India was simultaneously freed and divided. Partition affected everyone in one way or another, but it had a particular impact on women as they struggled to put their lives back together again. How did they find their place in this land of redrawn boundaries? What was "nation" to them?

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Details

• NCID: BA45306379
• ISBN:
  • 8186706003
• LCCN: 98902564
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 274 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS480.842
  • DC21 : 954.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : India -- History -- Partition, 1947
  • LCSH : Women -- India -- History